2000 treated through innovative geriatric dermatology collaboration at Rumailah Hospital

Doha, Qatar: In 2024 and 2025, two thousand older adults received specialised care through the Geriatric Dermatology (GeriDerm) Clinic, a unique colla...

Doha, Qatar: In 2024 and 2025, two-thousand older adults received specialised care through the Geriatric Dermatology (GeriDerm) Clinic, a unique collaborative service delivered in partnership with Hamad Medical Corporation’s Rumailah Hospital and Department of Dermatology and Venereology.

The clinic provides an innovative model of integrated care, redefining how skin conditions in older adults are diagnosed, managed and understood within the broader context of ageing and chronic disease.

The GeriDerm Clinic brings together geriatric medicine and dermatology within a single, coordinated care pathway, recognising that skin changes in older adults are often key indicators of underlying systemic illness rather than isolated conditions. By combining expertise across specialities, the clinic enables precision diagnosis, timely intervention and holistic care for some of the most clinically complex patients in the health system.

Operating as a structured, weekly interdisciplinary clinic, GeriDerm delivers same-visit, joint clinical decision-making.

This approach is particularly critical for older adults living with frailty, multiple long-term conditions, and prescribed multiple medications, where delayed or misinterpreted diagnoses can lead to avoidable complications and hospital admissions.